Running Word 20023 on WinNT.

I am having a dickens of a time convicing Word to quit creating styles with
Simsun. How do I convince Word to quit using Simsun. I have set local
language to English. I have set the document language to English.

Also, some of the styles display an Arabic character. Don't know how to get
rid of that either.

I work for a multinational and receive documents with all kinds of crud in
them. I need to clean them up for American English but am very frustrated
with these two persistent formatting styles that creep in.

Can anyone help me?

"Bev" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote

> Running Word 20023 on WinNT.
> I am having a dickens of a time convicing Word to quit creating styles
> with
> Simsun. How do I convince Word to quit using Simsun. I have set local
> language to English. I have set the document language to English.

> Also, some of the styles display an Arabic character. Don't know how to
> get
> rid of that either.

> I work for a multinational and receive documents with all kinds of crud in
> them. I need to clean them up for American English but am very frustrated
> with these two persistent formatting styles that creep in.

> Can anyone help me?
One idea that comes to mind:

Tools > Language > Set language

If there is a check mark in the box before "Detect language automatically"
remove it and OK your way out.
Create a new throwaway file. Be sure the language is set to US English all
through it. Save the file and close it. Exit Word. If the program asks if
you want to save your normal.dot template, say yes.

This usually works for me. However I don't use styles and it's possible that
Arabic is the designated language in the styles in which you're seeing this
behavior.

--
Bob
http://www.kanyak.com